Macron the Redeemer sweeps to victory
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EMMANUEL Macron the Redeemer, after Sunday's sweeping victory, will be the eighth president of France's Fifth Republic, the latest in a long line of hitherto largely underperforming saviours of the French nation.
Mr Macron combines the classic credentials of a smart, reformist technocrat with a biblically symbolic first name. He will need all this and more to overcome the troubles besetting the euro area's second-biggest economy.
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